Earn 6 merit badges, including 4 from
the required list for Eagle.
___________________________________(required for Eagle)**
___________________________________(required for Eagle)**
___________________________________(required for Eagle)**
___________________________________(required for Eagle)**
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While a First Class Scout, take part in
service project(s) totaling
at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.

While a First Class Scout, serve
actively in your unit for four months in one or more of the following
positions of responsibility*** (or carry out a
unit leader-assigned leadership project to help your unit):

Boy Scout troop.

Patrol leader,

Venture patrol leader

assistant senior patrol leader,

senior patrol leader,

troop guide,

Order of the Arrow troop representative,

den chief,

scribe,

librarian,

historian,

quartermaster,

bugler,

junior assistant Scoutmaster,

chaplain aide,

instructor ,

troop Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer.

Varsity Scout team.

Captain,

cocaptain,

program manager,

squad leader,

team secretary,

Order of the Arrow team representative,

librarian,

historian,

quartermaster,

chaplain aide,

instructor,

den chief,

team Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer.

Venturing crew / Sea Scout
ship.

President,

vice president,

secretary,

treasurer,

den chief,

quartermaster,

historian,

guide,

boatswain,

boatswain's mate,

yeoman,

purser,

storekeeper,

crew/ship Webmaster, or

Leave No Trace trainer.

Lone Scout.

Leadership responsibility in his school, religious organization,
club, or elsewhere in his community.

Take part in a Scoutmaster conference

Successfully complete your board of review.†

* For Varsity Scouts working on Boy Scout requirements, replace "troop" with
"team" and "Scoutmaster" with "Varsity Scout Coach."
For Venturers working on Boy Scout requirements, replace "troop" with "crew"
and "Scoutmaster" with "Crew Advisor."
For Sea Scouts working on Boy Scout requirements, replace "troop" with "ship"
and "Scoutmaster" with "Skipper."

** Choose any of the 17 required merit badges in the 13 categories to fulfill
requirement 3. See requirement 3 in
the Eagle Scout rank requirements for a list of badges required for Eagle.

*** Assistant patrol leader is not an approved position of responsibility
for the Star rank.

† If the board of review does not approve the Scout’s advancement, the decision
may be appealed in accordance with Guide to Advancement topic 8.0.4.0.

NOTE: The footnote to Requirement 3 means that, for example,
a Scout can use both Lifesaving AND Emergency Preparedness and/or Swimming,
Hiking, AND Cycling toward the requirement of 4 from the required list for Eagle
when working toward Life Scout.) Also note that the asterisks are specifically
placed on the lines marked "(required for Eagle)" signifying that the note applies
to these badges. The Guide to Advancement explicitly states this on page 52:

7.0.4.5 Earning Eagle-Required Merit Badges for Star or
Life Rank
Candidates for Star or Life, in the selection of “any four” or “any three,”
respectively, of the merit badges required for Eagle, may choose from all
those listed, including where alternatives are available: Emergency Preparedness
OR Lifesaving; Cycling OR Hiking OR Swimming; and, beginning July 2013,
Environmental Science OR Sustainability. For example, if a Scout earns Cycling,
Hiking, and Swimming, all three of them count as Eagle required for Life
rank. Only one, however, would serve toward the required merit badges for
the Eagle Scout rank. The other two would count toward the optional merit
badges required to make up the total of 21 merit badges.

Note that Star and Life requirements each allow two non-Eagle-required
merit badges. It is the Scout’s decision, however, to earn more—or all—of
his Star and Life badges from the Eagle-required list. Beginning July 2013,
Sustainability may be used for a Star or Life Eagle-required merit badge
as well, even if Environmental Science has also been earned, but only one
of the two would count toward an Eagle rank.

Please note that Requirement 7 - (Complete your Board of Review) MAY
be done AFTER the Scout' has reached age 18. All other requirements must be
completed BEFORE the Scout's 18th Birthday.

Upcoming change

Cooking Merit Badge to Be Required for Eagle Starting Jan. 1, 2014

Effective Jan. 1, 2014, the Cooking merit badge will be required to obtain
the Eagle Scout rank. Regardless of when a Scout earned the Life rank or
began working toward Eagle, unless he fulfills all the rank requirements—with
the exception of his board of review— before Jan. 1, 2014, he must earn
the Cooking merit badge to become an Eagle Scout.

Note: This means that as of January 1, 2014, the
number of "Eagle required" merit badges will be 13, instead of 12, and the
number of "Optional" badges will drop to 8. In addition, this change to
the Eagle required list will result in another change to the footnote to
requirement 3. Once the Cooking merit badge becomes required, the footnote
will be changed as follows: "* Choose any of the
1617 required merit badges
in the 1213 categories
to fulfill requirement 3."

VENTURERS and SEA SCOUTS

The requirements above are those for boys enrolled as members of Boy Scout
Troops (including Venture Patrols within Troops) or Varsity Scout Teams. The
following requirements apply to boys registered in the Venturing Program including
Sea Scouts.

Any male Venturer or Sea Scout who has achieved the First Class rank
as a Boy Scout in a troop or Varsity Scout in a team may continue advancement
toward Star, Life and Eagle Scout ranks up to his 18th birthday.

He must meet the requirements as prescribed in the official Boy Scout
Handbook and the current Boy Scout Requirements book.

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